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• December 23, 2025

  Walmart Gets $623K As Sanction Award In Avocado Oil Suit

  A California federal judge has ordered two attorneys from a Santa Monica-based law firm to pay Walmart $623,000 in attorney fees as a sanction in their client's decertified class action that accused Walmart of falsely labeling its avocado oil as containing only avocado oil despite allegedly containing other oils.

• December 23, 2025

  3 Federal Circuit Clashes To Watch In January

  The Federal Circuit is set to hear several intellectual property cases in January, including one over a nine-figure patent judgment against cybersecurity company Gen Digital tied to a contempt finding against a major law firm that represented it, and another over the tech industry's long-running crusade against patent review denials based on related litigation.

• December 23, 2025

  IP Lawyer Aims To Toss Amazon's Claims Of Trademark Abuse

  A U.S. intellectual property lawyer living in Japan asked a Washington federal court on Tuesday to throw out Amazon.com Inc.'s lawsuit accusing him of conspiring with a Chinese company to use his legal credentials to circumvent a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rule requiring that foreign trademark applicants be represented by U.S. counsel.

• December 23, 2025

  Connecticut's Most Notable Cases Of 2025

  Two attorneys who were licensed in Connecticut were convicted in 2025 on charges that either did or could result in prison time, including a longtime real estate attorney who fatally shot a man in his law firm's parking lot. And the state's largest healthcare system said it would pay $45 million to exit an agreement to buy three ailing hospitals that were in much worse condition than previously known. Here's a look back at three of the top cases of 2025.

• December 23, 2025

  Blue Cross Seeks McDonald Hopkins' Fraud Warning Docs

  Advice that McDonald Hopkins LLC gave a Florida hospital manager about potential exposure to criminal prosecution for healthcare fraud is neither privileged nor work product, and so should be handed over to a Blue Cross health insurer being sued for malicious prosecution in Georgia federal court, the insurer said.

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